The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Racism is real in this country.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

I don’t think I would run for president.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Imagination decides everything.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

We don’t believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues – of my comrades in the movement – who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

I don’t want to spend money the club doesn’t have; I don’t want to hold a player that doesn’t want to stay.

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

I’m not one of these guys who sits around saying, ‚Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that’s why he’s doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He’s just had a bad childhood and that’s why he’s eating people.‘ Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet.

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

I have too many clothes, I have too many options.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

And whether you’re an honest man, or whether you’re a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.

People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.